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The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Diemer, Ulli
http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htmPublisher: Connexions Information Sharing Services, Toronto, Canada Year First Published: {11661 The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections CONNEXIONS ANNUAL INTRODUCTIONS TO THE DIRECTORY & ITS SECTIONS Diemer, Ulli http://www.connexions.org/CxLibrary/Docs/CxAnnual-Intro-All.htm Connexions Information Sharing Services Toronto Canada This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. 1989 1994 CxDigest49-Annual1989.jpg ART Article We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. <br> <br>For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. <br> <br>Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. <br> <br>'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. <br> <br>Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. <br> <br>- Ulli Diemer CX5417 1 false true false CX5417.htm [0xc000974f90 0xc000e9eff0 0xc000e9f950 0xc000eb4cf0 0xc000f5ed20 0xc000f76780 0xc0000f31d0 0xc0000a3470 0xc0000d5560 0xc0000d58c0 0xc0001c72c0 0xc0002aff80 0xc00071bef0 0xc0003548d0 0xc0000c1ef0 0xc0004dd320 0xc000a54e10 0xc000ed2f00 0xc000678660 0xc00080a030 0xc000565bc0 0xc00129ae10 0xc001586060 0xc001eeb710 0xc0007fecc0 0xc000830870 0xc0008f7bf0] Cx} Year Published: 1994 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX5417 This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems. Abstract: We live in a world in crisis. Governments, corporations, and institutions assure us they have everything under control, and that better times are just around the corner, but all around us we see poverty, violence, injustice, environmental disasters, and wars. For more than a decade, they have imposed a new-right agenda on our societies, telling us we have no choice but to adapt to a `new world order' based on `free markets' and privatization. Instead of experiencing the promised benefits, however, most of us find ourselves worse off, economically, socially, and spiritually. Most of us are not living the lives we would choose to live, but the existing order insists there are no alternatives to itself, and most of us are sufficiently convinced or pre-occupied or discouraged to keep society from coming unglued. Many, many people wish there were alternatives, or think there ought to be, but are resigned to the conclusion that it is utopian to entertain any hopes for real change. The `system' is too big, too powerful, and we are too weak and too few in numbers. 'What do we do now?' 'How do we live?' All too often, we mind our own problems and don't think about the rest. Yet despite the pervasive feeling that 'nothing can be done', people do join together to act in common when they feel threatened or wronged, or when they have a goal in sight which they desire passionately enough. Sometimes they organize quietly and gradually. At other times a mass movement explodes into being, seemingly out of nothing, despite the risks and the odds. - Ulli Diemer Subject Headings
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